yce

yce (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of ice
   • [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     If thou doſt marry, Ile giue thee / This plague to thy dowry: / Be thou as chaſte as yce, as pure as ſnowe, / Thou ſhalt not ſcape calumny, to a Nunnery goe.]

• YEC

yce (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of is (“ice”)

• īċe

From Proto-West Germanic *ūkijā, diminutive of *ūkā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈyː.t͡ʃe/

ȳċe f or m

1. toad; poisonous frog

• fennȳċe